Category: Trauma
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Virtual Training Event: Restraint and Seclusion – Why now is the time to do something different
Is your facility still using restraint and seclusion? In this virtual full-day event, learn why now is the time to do something different. About this event Thank you for your interest in this event. Below you will find information about the event, and you are always welcome to reach out with any questions. Background Restraint is…
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Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, responds to a question about the use of restraint and seclusion
Recently Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, answered a question about the use of restraint and seclusion at the 5th Annual Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference. Unapologetic disrupter, Mathew Portell, asked the question.
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Abused and unable to tell your parents
Imagine being unable to talk for a single day. Unable to express your needs. You can’t write or text. Stop reading this and take 30 seconds to truly grasp how difficult and stressful it would be to go through a single day without any traditional means of communication.
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I kept screaming that I can’t breathe
My trauma started at 2 years old after my parents divorced when my dad would beat me. Having a trauma background, I was 6 years old in the second half of kindergarten, as I had gotten kicked out of the last school I went to that couldn’t deal with me, where I was first secluded…
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Teaching Through Trauma With the Applied Educational Neuroscience Framework
Today’s guest author is Connie Persike, M.S., CCC/SLP. Connie is a highly experienced Speech Language Pathologist and Educational Consultant. As founder of CP Consulting, she brings 20+ years of experience in educational settings to provide insight, guidance, coaching, and support to school districts, agencies, and families across Wisconsin — and throughout the country — who need…
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Earn a graduate certificate in Trauma-Informed Educational Practices for Children & Adolescents
Today’s guest author is Tammy Wynard. Tammy is an assistant professor of health sciences and program director for the online graduate certificate in Trauma-Informed Educational Practices for Children & Adolescents at North Central College in Naperville, IL. To learn more about Tammy, please read her biography or reach out to Tammy tswynard@noctrl.edu to connect! “This…
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This Giving Tuesday help us create safer schools for students, teachers, and staff.
The Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint (AASR) is determined to make a difference. Our organization works to raise awareness in the trail of destruction left in the wake of inappropriate and often abusive use of seclusion and restraint in our schools.
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Locked in the safe room
I was hospitalized 13 times during my childhood. It has to be well over 500 times I was restrained but I honestly could not tell you it was that much and that bad. Once I was stripped down naked and given a paper top by male staff while an inpatient and then locked in one…
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An autistic self-advocate’s journey and voice
Often it can be hard to remember things related to trauma (probably because the data is stored ‘in the back of the mind’ in the cerebellum rather than the prefrontal cortex). My earliest memory of abuse/neglect was as a toddler and I was left outside or locked in a room by myself sometimes for hours.…
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The Places That Stole Me
have a unique way of leaving reality behind them. A child playing dress-up puts on a cardboard crown holds their plastic staff, does a royal wave, and becomes a queen or king. A child opens a box of crayons, colors the green of jungle leaves, the blue of a running river, the yellow of a…